Spouses of the Heads of State of Costa Rica - Spouses of the Presidents of Costa Rica, Maria Josefa Lastiri, Yvonne Clays Spoelders (Paperback)

Chapters: Spouses of the Presidents of Costa Rica, Maria Josefa Lastiri, Yvonne Clays Spoelders, Pacifica Fernandez, Emilia Solorzano Alfaro, Karen Olsen Beck, Lorena Clare Facio. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Maria Josefa Lastiri Lozano (October 20, 1792 1846) was the wife of General Francisco Morazan and the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Central America, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. She was born on October 20, 1792 to her parents Juan Miguel Lastiri and Margarita Lozano y Borjas in Tegucigalpa. Honduras. She first married landowner Esteban Travieso in 1818, with whom she had 4 children but he later died in 1825. Upon his death, she inherited a fortune. On December 30, 1825 she married Francisco Morazan in Comayagua, with whom she only had one daughter, Adela Morazan Lastiri. She was First Lady of Honduras from 1827 to 1830, of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1830 to 1834 and from 1835 to 1839, and of the State of El Salvador from 1839 to 1840. She backed General Morazan's political and military activities, in which she lost the large capital her first husband inherited her at death. Due to the constant fighting and turmoil in El Salvador at the time, she left the country and sought asylum in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican government said it would grant the request if she and her family agreed to settle in the city of Esparza. Lastiri rejected the offer and instead went to Chiriqui, where she later met her husband. When Morazan took power in Costa Rica he immediately sent a boat to Chiriqui to pick up Lastiri and her family. After Morazan's fall from power and execution in September 1842, Lastiri and her family left the country and returned to El Salvador. She died in San Salvador in 1846. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=26326963